Energy crisis with 14-hour blackouts in Ecuador generate criticism of the Noboa government

Published at: 25/10/2024 09:58 AM

This Friday, the government of President Daniel Noboa in Ecuador was the target of criticism after announcing the extension of blackouts to 14 hours a day in the midst of the electronic crisis.

“There will be no economic growth, neither employment nor investment,” Luisa González, president of the Citizens' Revolution (RC) movement and aspiring to head the Executive for the elections of 2025, said through her social network X.

For his part, the sociologist and analyst, Agustín Burbano, quoted by Prensa Latina, questioned that “they reduced the hours of power cuts without technical support and now we will have 14 hours of power cuts. They govern us with magical thinking and premonitions.”

In addition, political analyst Mauro Andino warned that “until so long the country bleeds and plunges into darkness, the result of a miserable and inoperative regime that allowed the crisis to escalate to such levels,” he lamented.

During the early morning, the Minister in charge of Energy and Mines, Inés Manzano, through a video posted on social networks, said that spending eight to 14 hours without electricity is a “painful but responsible” measure.

A week ago, the president and his minister in charge announced that power cuts would gradually decrease from eight to six hours and would reach four hours a day in early November.

Prensa Latina added that engineers and experts insisted that the Executive's promise had no technical support and it was unfeasible to reduce the blackouts, which began on September 23.

Mazo News Team